to what extent does your class determine what you do with your life?

Class is a funny thing:

Jay Doubleyou: learning to use the appropriate register @ fawlty towers

Class is also a very serious thing:

Jay Doubleyou: america and class

Jay Doubleyou: class is the big issue in the united kingdom: part three

Jay Doubleyou: bad service is a class issue in the uk

To what extent, then, does class determine what you do with your life? And there's a lot of academic study on this:

How social class is reflected in our Psychology | BPS

The psychology of social class: How socioeconomic status impacts thought, feelings, and behaviour - PMC

If we look at how many working class people make a career in 'the arts' (painting, theatre, cinema, writing), then that's quite something:

Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society | Culture | The Guardian

Working class creatives at ‘lowest level in a decade’ | Equity

Class inequality in the Creative Industries is rooted in unequal access to arts and cultural education - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

Nevertheless, some creative people do make it - and the story of one such painter has just been told on BBC radio:

BBC Sounds - The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker - Available Episodes

The story has really captured the art world:

The Secret Painter — Eric Tucker, the unknown artist compared to Lowry

The extraordinary story of the secret painter discovered in his eighties

The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker review – art for art’s sake | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian

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